OBJECTIVE Feedback may be scarce and unsystematic during students' clerkship periods. We wanted to explore general practitioners' (GPs) and medical students' experiences with giving and receiving supervision and feedback during a clerkship in general practice, with a focus on their experiences with using a structured tool (StudentPEP) to facilitate feedback and supervision. DESIGN Qualitative...

OBJECTIVE To compare general pediatric knowledge acquisition and clinical problem-solving skills by students pre- and postcurricular reform based on the 1994 Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (APA-COMSEP) curricular guidelines. SETTING A large, urban academic medical center. SUBJECTS Third-year medical students on a required clerkshi...

OBJECTIVE The study objective is to investigate the impact of mandatory clinical clerkship courses on 5th-year pharmacy students' attitudes and perceived barriers toward providing pharmaceutical care (PC). METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 5th-year pharmacy students undertaking mandatory clinical clerkship in the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. A pharmaceutical care attitud...

INTRODUCTION The objective is to describe the implementation and outcomes of a structured communication module used to supplement case-based simulated resuscitation training in an emergency medicine (EM) clerkship. METHODS We supplemented two case-based simulated resuscitation scenarios (cardiac arrest and blunt trauma) with role-play in order to teach medical students how to deliver news of ...

AIMS Planning a career in general practice depends on positive attitudes towards primary care. The aim of this study was to compare attitudes of medical students of a Modern Curriculum at Hannover Medical School with those of the Traditional Curriculum before (pre) and after (post) a three-week clerkship in general practice. In parallel, we aimed to analyse several other variables such as age a...

Introducation It is essential for faculty to receive feedback on their teaching for the purpose of improvement as well as promotion. It can be challenging to motivate students to provide feedback to preceptors and fill out evaluation forms when not a clerkship requirement. Furthermore, there is concern that making the evaluations a requirement can compromise the quality of the feedback. The obj...

Due to substantial technological advances over the last century, medical imaging has played an expanding and central role in medicine, influencing nearly every aspect of clinical care, from detecting disease guiding decision-making delivering therapies. However, despite its ubiquitous presence patient students’ exposure radiology is strikingly underrepresented within school curriculum, with onl...

Background and Objectives: On March 17, 2020, the Association of American Medical Colleges recommended temporary suspension all medical student clinical activities due to COVID-19 pandemic, which required a rapid development alternatives traditional teaching methods. This study examines education changes spurred by COVID-19. Methods: Data were collected via Council Academic Family Medicine Educ...

In early 20th century, Sir William Osler supported the use of humour as an efficacious tool in medical education, which continues to be used today. Despite abundance literature delineating this important role, it is often overlooked among students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was planned where a total 295 students from pre-clerkship and clerkship phases at Beirut Arab University Faculty...